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How do i add a string to a data type that had html?

Answer 1

A:

You can do $message .= $page;

It is equivalent to "append $page to $message"

Soufiane Hassou 2010-05-12 22:58:37

Answer 2

A:

If you just want do concatinate the two strings?

$body = $message . $page;
mail($TO,$subject,$body, $headers);

Example taken from http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php

<?php
$a = "Hello ";
$b = $a . "World!"; // now $b contains "Hello World!"

$a = "Hello ";
$a .= "World!";     // now $a contains "Hello World!"
?>

redimp 2010-05-12 22:59:20

Well that doesn't seem to be working. How can I insert $message into the html?

creocare 2010-05-12 23:09:12

Answer 3

A:

I would strongly advise you to sanitize the user input beforehand.

just do the following it should work:

$message = $_REQUEST['message'];

$message .= 'some html code';

mail($TO,$subject,$page, $headers);

The . is a concatenation operator and you can read more about it here.

Russell Dias 2010-05-12 23:13:22

Can you explain a little "sanitize"?

creocare 2010-05-13 00:40:52

Do not trust the user. Assume that every user is malicious(morbid thought but very handy). So essentially, you have to verify all the user input, to prevent things like SQL Injection, XSS attacks etc. Have a browse through the following:http://devzone.zend.com/article/1113

Russell Dias 2010-05-13 01:17:42

Answer 4

A:

I use heredoc to accomplish what (I think) you're trying to do. The example might look like

$message = "I'm a message";

$page = <<<HTML
<p>I'm a $message that's been inserted into html.</p>
HTML;

Like other users have said before me, never, ever use input directly from a user without first sanitizing or filtering it.

Jeremy Kendall 2010-05-13 01:29:39

Yes this is what i'd like to do. I tried doing what you've done here but in the email it just displays the variable $message not the message.

creocare 2010-05-14 22:51:22

@creocare - Make sure to read the heredoc documentation (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc) carefully. I had some problems when I first started using it too ;) There are some very significant gotchas that may be causing you some issues. Pay special attention to the rules about the closing delimiter.Would you consider posting the heredoc code that's giving you trouble? That might be helpful.

Jeremy Kendall 2010-05-14 22:59:39

$message = $_REQUEST['message'];$page =<<<' <html> <body> <p> $message </p> <img src="print.jpg"/> </body></html>';

creocare 2010-05-15 00:05:11

I guess it should look like this?<<<HTML<html> <body> <p>$message</p> <img src="print.jpg"> </body></html>';HTML

creocare 2010-05-15 00:20:26

@creocare - It's hard to tell from the comment formatting, but it looks like you're not including the mandatory opening and closing delimiters. heredoc must start with three less than symbols followed by the delimiter, ex <<<ABC. At the end of your heredoc, ABC must appear again, all by itself, with no extra whitespace, etc. You can add a semicolon. Have you tried copying and pasting my heredoc example for test purposes? Or the examples in the php docs? That might help.

Jeremy Kendall 2010-05-15 00:20:56

Yes! Make sure you end with HTML as well.

Jeremy Kendall 2010-05-15 00:22:16

Yeah I did but it doesn't seem to like it.

creocare 2010-05-15 00:22:29

one other question too. Why the the " ' " in that's screw up everything?

creocare 2010-05-15 00:24:58

the apostrophe screws up the php code.

creocare 2010-05-15 00:25:23

Why do you have a single quote and a colon before the closing HTML? Is the closing HTML on a line all by itself? I understand how confusing this can be, but make sure you've carefully reviewed the docs on this one. Unless there's something really unconventional going on with your development environment, you should be able to use heredoc without a problem.

Jeremy Kendall 2010-05-15 00:26:46

So it's working now?

Jeremy Kendall 2010-05-15 00:29:38

I should post the whole page somewhere so you can see it.

creocare 2010-05-15 01:00:51

isn't there a website called postit or something for that?

creocare 2010-05-15 01:03:13

i'm not sure if this is legit for this forum but. check it here. http://paste-it.net/public/v632c98/

creocare 2010-05-15 01:27:52

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's obvious from your code sample that you're not taking my suggestions and not reading the php heredoc documentation closely enough. Please review the heredoc documentation (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc), paying special attention to the section titled WARNING in bold, red font, located in the box with the red border and red background. The problem you're having is addressed in that section.

Jeremy Kendall 2010-05-15 02:21:30

No worries. I see the error of what I was doing. I was able to make it work for the first IF statement. If I add a second heredoc it wrecks the whole thing. http://paste-it.net/public/v38693f/

creocare 2010-05-17 19:33:16

I figured out a way to make it all work. Thanks for you help.

creocare 2010-05-17 21:28:44

You're welcome. I'm glad you were finally able to get it working. Congrats! Also, if one of the answers in this thread was helpful in solving your problem, please accept it as an answer. This is a community - accepting and upvoting answers is part of the deal. You'll be much more likely to get good help with a decent acceptance rate.

Jeremy Kendall 2010-05-17 22:05:19

Answer 5

A:

to answer the question here...

Well that doesn't seem to be working. How can I insert $message into the html? – creocare

    $template = '<html>
            <body>
            <h1>A message from something.com</h1>
            <p>
            {{userMessage}}
            </p>
            </body
            </html>';

$userMessage = 'hey there im the message';
$message = str_replace( '{{userMessage}}', $userMessage, $template );
echo $message;

you can get you dynamic message into your html email template using str_replace

David Morrow 2010-05-19 02:29:28

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